Gripping medieval murder mystery set in a time of violent upheaval
A glorious celebration of the history of Westland
We may have fallen out of love with our city homes, but cities are still going to be essential dwelling places for a growing population. International sustainability and wellbeing advocate, Claire Bradbury explores what we need to do to fall back in love with the city, and find our city homes again.
The first book to explore in detail how intelligence agencies the world over have used sex as a way to acquire sensitive information
Once, the output of such yards as Harland & Wolff and Workman, Clark was vital business of national and international importance. The Harland & Wolff yard had a long association of building ships for the White Star Line, culminating in the three largest passenger vessels of the Edwardian era, Olympic, Titanic and Britannic, as well as others for the International Mercantile Marine Co.This beautifully illustrated volume from Richard P. de Kerbrech and David L. Williams covers aspects of the construction and the skilled craftsmen that worked on these ships, and many others, from the Edwardian era to the 1920s, revelling in atmospheric views of the boiler shop, foundry, machine shop and slipways, as well as many successful launchings. The rich array of images showcases the labour-intensive heavy engineering and shipyard practices that were once part of BelfastΓÇÖs major industry, now sadly no more.
A beautifully written celebration of the essence of the Irish Garden
This is the first book detailing the history of the golden age of the British sitcom, the 1970s, through the voices of those who created it
Previously undocumented testimonies telling stories of love, laughter, adventure and activism from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.
Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime
How the American airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as dominant long-distance transport
The fate of the world's coasts rests on a knife edge as global warming melts ice sheets and glaciers from the Alps to the Andes. The choices we make now will determine whether oceans rise by a coast-swamping one metre by 2100 or whether we can save our coastal communities.
The story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through the lives of its great trailblazers
Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain
A collection of tragic and forgotten historic disasters around Britain, from the 1800s to the twenty-first century
The first book to explore the secret campaign that Mrs Thatcher and her government waged before and after the Falklands War against 'subversives'
Historic reconstruction drawings of Gloucester accompanied by photographs and drawings from excavations
Valerie Storie, the survivor of the infamous A6 Murder, was victim shamed for over 50 years. This is her story, told for the very first time
The true story of the Goering brothers - one a Nazi war criminal; the other an anti-Nazi resistance fighter
Folk stories from different cultures about the Little People that inhabit hidden lands
Standing in the Wings is an account of The Beatles' rise to fame, written by a man who saw it all
The true history behind the myths and legends of Glastonbury
The Curse of Sherlock Holmes is the first definitive account of one of Britain's most loved actors, Basil Rathbone
A unique insight into life with Sir Roger Moore - written by his PA, his co-author, his onstage co-star, and his confidant
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